Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weapon is in battle, and this is the toughest trial world arms buyers have seen in years. A recent report from the French Parliament warns gingerly that in the global weapons market, "France's place risks being reduced." It already has been. Overseas orders for French military hardware have shrunk 45% since 1988. The Desert Storm debacle is unlikely to bring them back...
...writing to express our concern over your weekly comic strip "Jody", which appears in the What Is to Be Done?. The punchline of a recent strip featured a large man struggling to get into his jeans and complaining that they "must have shrunk again." Many of the "Jody" strips in the past have made similar digs at the weight of this character, who is degradingly termed...
Honey, I Blew Up the Baby (Disney) Studio boss Jeffrey Katzenberg is eager to repeat the success of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In one of the script concepts being considered, a child is Xeroxed to huge size. But copies usually fade, and star Rick Moranis will demand a huge salary...
...fantasy life have struggled to adjust to his expanded interest in health, psychology, relationships and children. They may not have moved quickly enough. Circulation has dropped at the longtime leaders: since the early 1970s, Playboy's has plummeted from almost 7 million to half that, and Penthouse's has shrunk from 3 million to 1.7 million. That falloff is mirrored among women's magazines...
...only a character more interesting than any of his family or friends can imagine but also an interior life richer than even its owner recognizes. Rabbit's undiscriminating curiosity takes in everything, from old songs on the car radio to the crammed titles on a cineplex marquee: HONEY I SHRUNK BATMAN GHOSTBUST II KARATE KID III DEAD POETS GREAT BALLS. These are the fragments he innocently shores against his ruin, the kind of details that historians millenniums hence will cherish. Even his loopiest private opinions carry the whiff of theological profundity. Months into the Bush Administration, Rabbit misses Reagan...